On 09/04/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/04/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
A request for all those advocating a new policy
of opt-out for some biographies:
I'm seeing no-one addressing the issue of Neutral Point Of View,
previously a core policy of Wikipedia. Could those of you advocating a
new policy please detail your understanding of how we can be sure this
won't damage neutrality?
NPOV is a matter of article content, surely? By not having an article
we simply don't cover that topic, not implicitly cover that topic
non-neutrally...
Indeed, to expand on this, there are some people who we pretty much
*cannot* cover neutrally - those whose "notability", such as it is,
revolves around one small scandal. They are a private figure and only
rose to media attention the time they were caught in flagrante with a
hamster, so there is nothing else we can write about them, and we end
up with
"Joe Blow (b. 1963?) is an American civil servant, living in Kansas
and employed as a tax analyst in 1992. In that year, he became
prominent for screwing a rodent.<ref>...</ref> {{stub}}"
I mean, how do we make that neutral? How do we avoid "undue weight" on
their one and only moment of fame? It's a serious question.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk